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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Education Resources(OER),
Open Access and Open Source

Terms used for content that the creators have chosen to share with an open copyright model of licensing.

OPEN ... they can be copied and shared without permission or fees, as opposed to the traditional "all rights reserved" approach to copyright ownership, where the creator sells their work and requires permission for copying and use outside of purchasing.

Credit the creator! Open doesn't mean no attribution. Attribution and agreeing to share the content forward are usually requirements for use of OER material.

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Any type of educational teaching materials created with an open copyright license.

Key Features:

Free to legally copy, use, revise, adapt and re-share.

OERs can include a variety of teaching materials including curriculum, course outlines, textbooks, teaching notes, assignments, tests and projects.

Not format specific -- can include digital, audio, video or animation. The native format is digital but print copies can be made.

Attribution and sharing the content are almost always requirements

Licensing

True OER are free of most copyright and licensing restrictions

Terms of Use statements or a Creative Commons license provide guidance on how the content can be used.

Using Images

This image was created by Opensource.com and is licensed using the creative commons CC BY-SA license . Use of the CC licence symbol on the image provides a visual indicator/ cue to the intent to share.

CC = Creative Commons
BY = Who is the image by ~ Give credit to the creator
SA = Share Alike ~ You agree to share the content forward.

Open Education Resources

Why Open Education Matters by BlinkTower. CC BY-SA

This video is the FIRST place winner in a 2012 contest to create a short video that explains the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere. The contest was sponsored by Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundations.

What is Open Source?

What is Open Access?

The term Open Access is often used in reference to scholarly journals and academic research and is strongly linked to the movement to make research results and academic papers open and freely accessible.

Open Access (2010) by Canadian Association of Research Libraries. CC BY-NC.